Climatology of precipitation and clouds over South_Africa
South Africa

General info Precipitation System properties Cloud Seasonal variation Diurnal variation Vertical Structure Extreme events Time series

Topography and population South_Africa has a mean elevation of 1260 meter and 1 % of the area is covered with water. Within South_Africa, total human population is about 39842664. The geographical distributions of human population and topograph are shown below: Precipitation and cloud In South_Africa, mean annual precipitation is 772.23 (mm/year). Mean volume fraction of high level (10-14 km) cloud is about 4.1%. Mean volume fraction of mid level (5-10 km) cloud is about 9.0%. Mean volume fraction of low level (1-5 km) cloud is about 6.5%. Click the links on the left to see the details of the precipitation and cloud systems.